Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

My siblings and I are estranged. I live in a different state. My brother and I never got along and stopped speaking many ...

DEAR ABBY: I was raped by a family member and, due to special circumstances, told no one except one other family member, who I swore to secrecy. She recently got mad at me because of my religious ...

DEAR ABBY: My husband has cancer, and the doctors say he has maybe a year left. Before his diagnosis, we had friends we would hang out with and go to dinner with once or twice a month. Now I don ...

Dear Abby advises a woman who is upset that her husband didn't do anything on her birthday, even though they went on vacation a week prior. DEAR ABBY: My husband took me on a trip for my birthday ...

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DEAR ABBY: I have a problem with my daughter-in-law. I know she loves me, but I don’t think she likes me. An example: Yesterday, I met her and my son at my granddaughter’s dance recital.

DEAR ABBY: I taught tennis lessons at a private club for 41 years. Then came the pandemic. I was furloughed and not asked to return to work. I wasn’t given the usual parting acknowledgement that ...

Dear Abby’s sage advice gathered a lot of readers to her columns in 2024. Many of the top columns were about strained family relationships and marriage breakups. But the top column this year was ...

DEAR ABBY: I have been happily single for most of my life, and I treasure the friendship and company of my other women friends. My question concerns a situation that happens frequently when one of ...

DEAR ABBY: Six months ago, I began seeing a man I like very much but don’t want to be intimate with. We are in our “young” 70s, and both of us were widowed two years ago after 50-year marriages.

Dear Abby: Six months ago, I began seeing a man I like very much but don’t want to be intimate with. We are in our “young” 70s, and both of us were widowed two years ago after 50-year marriages.